It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.

It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.

He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.

Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.

I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

Shh! It happens. Sh!it happens.

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

You want to hear that!??!?- I am going to give you... what you want....

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

Science only goes so far, then comes God. - Noah Calhoun-

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.